ashes
Example Sentences
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To preserve the evidence, officers erected a scene tent and created a grid of 50cm squares, allowing them to collect every piece of bone they could identify in the ashes.
From BBC
After a memorial service in France and a Cuban state funeral, his ashes were interred in Havana.
The fire did not burn the wood of the boat, though it smoked—but a rope, Christopher saw, had burned instantly to ashes.
From Literature
“It was like a rock star rising from the ashes. You could literally feel the theater vibrating.”
From Los Angeles Times
His throat was dry as ashes, but he swallowed down a gulp.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
